Having been accused of collaboration with authorities of the Independent State of Croatia, he was executed by the Yugoslav Partisans, without trial.

The place of his burial is unknown. During communist rule was suppressed. Josip Horvat illustrated following books: Boris Sergeyevich Koltsov Russian: In , he qualified for the German Darts Masters, where he lost 6—3 in the first round to Raymond van Barneveld.

References "Stefan Stoyke - Mastercaller. External links Player profile on Stefan Stoyke from Dartsdatabase He was the author of many novels, short stories, dramas, screenplays, essays and radio dramas, translated into at least nine languages, including Russian, Chinese and Esperanto.

The screenplay Ciguli Miguli , critical of bureaucracy, briefly brought him into disfavour with the Communist party authorities, on which occasion he turned to sailing.

The club was founded in They play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. The club has spent its entire existence in top flight, having been members of the Yugoslav First League from to , and then the Croatian First League since its foundation in They entered the Yugoslav First League in its inaugural —47 season, finishing as runners-up.

The German Darts Masters was the second staging of the tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation, and was the first entry in the World Series of Darts.

The tournament featured 16 players eight PDC players facing eight regional qualifiers and was held at the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on 25 May The event also broke the attendance record for a darts tournament with 20, people attending the event, beating the previous record set 70 years earlier.

The German Darts Masters was the inaugural staging of the tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation, as the seventh and last entry in the World Series of Darts.

Peter Wright won his first World Series title after defeating Phil Taylor 11—4 in the final, after surviving one match dart each in his first round and quarter-final game.

This is how the prize money is divided: Horvat was born in Pakrac. He worked with s Michael van Gerwen was the defending four-time consecutive champion after defeating Steve Beaton 6—2 in the final.

Van Gerwen went on to win the title for the 5th time in a row by defeating Steve Lennon 8—5 in the final, after he was 6—2 down in the semi-finals, before surviving three match darts from Daryl Gurney and winning 7—6 to reach the final.

Prize money This is how the prize money is divided: He published his first poem in He worked as the lector of the official paper Narodne novine — , taught at the Academy of Arts in Zagreb — Later he worked at the publishing houses "Zora" and "Hrvatski pjesnici", and Matica hrvatska.

He was the president of the Society of Croatian Writers in —, and he also became an academician of the Academy. His poem Balada o zaklanim ovcama "Ballad of Slaughtered Sheep" , As of April HNS forms a parliamentary club with 5 members in the Croatian Parliament, making them the fourth largest party in Croatia in terms of parliament representation.

Croatian names follow complex and unique lettering, structuring, composition, and naming customs that have considerable similarities with most other European name systems, and with those of other Slavic peoples in particular.

With modernization and globalization in the last century, given names and surnames have expanded past typical Slavic traditionalism and have included borrowed names from all over the world.

Croatian names usually, but not always, consist of a given name, followed by a family name; however certain names follow naming customs that diverge from the norm.

Naming customs have been a part of Croatian culture for over years. Historically, Croatian royalty were all giv The Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia Croatian: Kraljevina Hrvatska i Slavonija; Hungarian: Although it was under the suzerainty of the Crown of Saint Stephen, the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia kept a significant level of self-rule.

Michael van Gerwen was the defending champion, having beaten Peter Wright 6—4 in the final of the previous edition, and he defended his title by defeating Jelle Klaasen 6—2 in the final.

Michael Rosenauer born July 13, is a German darts player. He went on to lose in the first round to Mervyn King. It was also the first time since that the final was contested by the top 2 seeds.

Michael van Gerwen set a new record for the highest World Darts Championship 3-dart average Michael Smith was the defending champion, but he lost 6—4 to James Wilson in the second round.

Stephen and under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Hungary but effectively functioned a single kingdom, subordinate to the central government in Vienna.

After , Slavonia and C Hopp qualified for the PDC World Darts Championship by winning the Central European Qualifier in Bielefeld[2] and in doing so became the second-youngest player ever to compete at the championships after Mitchell Clegg.

Hopp played Charl Pietersen of South Africa in the preliminary round winning by 4 legs to 1 to set up a first round match against Denis Ovens.

It also marks the first time a German player won a PDC tour event. Noticeably, Hopp won both his semi-final and final match with a finish on the bullseye, with his opponents waiting on a two-dart finish.

The tournament took place at the edel-optics. Van Gerwen also threw the first European Tour nine-dart finish in over 5 years against Ryan Joyce in the second round.

The handball team is controlled by the Croatian Handball Federation. Croatia has often been portrayed[1] as an international force in handball, having won two Olympic gold medals and one World Championship, but never winning the Euros, having lost two finals, one to rivals France and the other to Scandinavian handball team Denmark.

The Croatian handball team that won the Olympic Gold medal was often credited as the biggest upset in history of handball, with handball making its debut appearance.

Kvarner Rijeka 10th place: C Champion; R Relegated. Having this in mind, only one team was relegated at the end of the season while four were promoted from the Second League.

The World Series of Darts is a series of televised darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. In , there are 7 World Series events and one finals event.

Biography Born in Milan, he began studying piano when he was six and cello when he was eight. He became a professor of cello and chamber music at the Zagreb Conservatory, where his influence developed modern cello playing in Yugoslavia.

This year there are 10 European Tour events being held — 7 in Germany and one each in Austria, Gibraltar and the Netherlands.

Prize money Prize money for European Tour events stays the same as in In addition, the top 32 of the European Tour will qualify for the European Championship.

Date Venue Location Winner Legs Michael van Gerwen was the defending champion after defeating Peter Wright 6—5 in the final of the tournament,[2][3] but lost 6—2 in the third round to Rob Cross.

Peter Wright won the tournament, defeating Mervyn King 6—2 in the final. The tournament took place at the Glaspalast in Sindelfingen, Germany, between 20—22 September It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the southeast, sharing a maritime border with Italy.

Croatia has an area of 56, square kilometres 21, square miles and a population of 4. Inhabited since the Paleolithic Age, the Croats arrived in the area in the 6th century and organised the territory into two duchies by the 9th century.

Croatia was first internationally recognized as an independent state on 7 June during the reign of duke Branimir. Tomislav became the first king by , elevating Croatia to the status of a kingdom, which retained its sove In , there were 6 World Series events and one finals event, which has this year been moved from Glasgow, Scotland to Vienna, Austria.

The fourth assembly of the Croatian Parliament Croatian: Vicepresidents of the parliament were: Jakov Gotovac with the National opera of Bulgaria, Sofia, Biography Gotovac was born in Split then part of Austria-Hungary and initially had little if any formal education in music.

He started as a law student in Zagreb, but switched to writing music in In Vienna, he studied in the class of Joseph Marx.

In he moved to Zagreb, where he kept working both as conductor and composer until his death. Between and , he was the opera conductor a This is a list of all football players that have played for the Yugoslavia national football team that represented the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and SFR Yugoslavia.

For the list of international footballers who represented FR Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro, please see List of Serbia international footballers including predecessor teams.

Ordered alphabetically by the surname followed by the years of their appearances and number of matches and goals. The Vladimir Nazor Award Croatian: Nagrada Vladimir Nazor is an annual award given by the Croatian Ministry of Culture to Croatian artists for highest achievements in various artistic fields.

It was established in and is named for poet Vladimir Nazor. As of , the award is given in the following six categories: Architecture and urbanism Film Literature Music Theatre Visual arts and applied arts Two awards are given in each category every year - a life achievement award for overall contributions to their respective field and an annual award for notable works in the field in the past twelve months.

Croatian Ministry of Culture. Retrieved 10 July Anderson took out 96 for another dart finish before double 16 broke to reduce the gap to before taking out 68 to force a decider, only to see the Austrian land double 16 to finally close out the win.

Hopp made an ideal start with a and double 14 to win the opening leg, only for Anderson to respond with a 95 finish before finishing double ten and tops for a lead.

Hopp took the fifth but missed his chance to level in the next before Anderson produced a brilliant darter as he moved up, and though six missed match darts allowed the German a brief reprieve, tops moved the Scot into the last eight.

Marijanovic hit back in leg seven, but Taylor took out double four to complete the win, setting up a quarter-final tie with Daryl Gurney on Saturday afternoon.

World Grand Prix champion Gurney produced an assured display to whitewash German Superleague winner Maik Langendorf in their first round tie.

Gurney opened the match with a bull finish and took out 67 and double nine to lead by three legs, before punishing a total of eight misses by Langendorf in the next two as he moved up, before double ten sealed the win.

We are committed to responsible gambling and have a number of ways to help you stay in control and keep gambling fun. Wright gets off the hook credit: The double top bed took a battering as Wade clinically saw off Munch to secure his quarter-final place, with the first seven legs of the contest ending on tops.

Mensur Suljovic delighted the Castello Arena crowd with a win over Kyle Anderson, as the Auckland Darts Masters winner saw his bid for further World Series of Darts glory ended by the Austrian despite a brave comeback.

Gary Anderson ended the hopes of German number one Max Hopp by claiming a victory as he began his bid for a third World Series win of the year.